I am taking part in Mommy Only has Two Hands A Year Ago Thursday Blog Hop . Check out the rules on Mommy Only has Two Hands . The other t...

Drums: Dum-Dum-Dum-Ta-Dum! The toddler is 17 months today! Quick update: (Why it is SOOOO nice that they actually grow up!) - The sleep...

Something of the scared little face that we see... Lately we have noticed that we have to watch what is showing on television. We have to...

(The detour at the hospital yesterday, with the abscess, got us a little bit side-tracked.) What she is doing now at 16 months : - I am a li...

Photo: Patrick Pretorius Photography . Mieka is still in the developmental phase of ...

I am so impressed with my Mieka. She is taking it in her stride: moving from the babies to the toddler’s section at the day care this week. ...

Another milestone! The toddler is apparently ready to move over to the toddler’s section at the day care. Today is her last day with the bab...

The toddler and potty training. No, we haven’t started with potty training for the 15-month old, but we caught her doing the right thing! ...

It sneaks up on you! She is 15 months. What happened to 14 months? Gone! Oi! Our little girl is getting more independent by the day! How I l...

A great milestone has been reached. The toddler understands enough to be able to perform relatively simple instructions or tasks. A favourit...

The toddler has been speaking to us in recent times in a rounded vowel–type of language. It sounds as if she is speaking underneath the wat...

Mieka, our baby (translate toddler, but I still wants to call her my baby), was 14 months on Sunday! Every day we think she can’t get any c...

One of the biggest milestones has been reached: The toddler is walking! The day care has been telling us every day that she is walking furth...

The note from the day care states that she is a well-behaved little girl, and that she enjoys the company of the other babies. How much of t...

A while back we were worried about the baby hitting other babies. We saw the disturbing behaviour while she was “playing” with a friend. But...

The baby is a toddler already! One year olds are not babies anymore. I feel sad to realize that my baby is not a baby anymore. I’ll have to ...

The one year goal is looming of weaning Mieka. From the beginning I said I would see how far I could go with this. I continued expressing fe...

11 months, 2 weeks: The baby does not sleep through the night. Not yet! But it is going much much better, thank you very much! We had a bad ...

I have voiced my concern about Mieka who screams and hits at other babies when they come near her. Tasneem , an occupational therapist, sugg...